This is a two-part video, both with the artist nude and 9 months pregnant with her daughter, Ola Creston. The first segment, color, was originally shot in Super-8 film by Bill Creston. Rosenthal is seated and reading bizarre dreams from her Journal. In the second segment, originally shot with a black and white 1/2" open reel video portapak, she's climbing up and down a step-ladder priming a wall over the words "Priming a Wall, Aug 1, 1979" as the radio plays news of an art heist. This was an extremely controversial piece at the time, and when the first segment was shown alone at BACA: Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association, the audience reacted with overwhelming horror and disgust, loudly castigating her for publicly screening her nude, pregnant body, a reaction which took this idiosyncratic but unassuming artist by great surprise.

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